South Asia - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in South Asia was 5.35 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.70 in 1970 and a minimum value of 3.61 in 2003.
Definition: Ores and metals comprise commodities in SITC sections 27 (crude fertilizer, minerals nes); 28 (metalliferous ores, scrap); and 68 (non-ferrous metals).
Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.
See also:
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 5.42 |
| 1963 | 5.61 |
| 1964 | 5.64 |
| 1965 | 6.26 |
| 1966 | 4.61 |
| 1967 | 7.20 |
| 1968 | 6.07 |
| 1969 | 6.01 |
| 1970 | 8.70 |
| 1971 | 7.89 |
| 1972 | 7.39 |
| 1973 | 6.63 |
| 1974 | 6.27 |
| 1975 | 4.82 |
| 1976 | 4.71 |
| 1977 | 4.98 |
| 1978 | 5.20 |
| 1979 | 5.78 |
| 1980 | 5.17 |
| 1981 | 5.43 |
| 1983 | 4.97 |
| 1984 | 5.20 |
| 1985 | 6.02 |
| 1986 | 6.09 |
| 1987 | 6.15 |
| 1988 | 7.67 |
| 1989 | 8.37 |
| 1990 | 7.06 |
| 1991 | 5.65 |
| 1992 | 5.86 |
| 1993 | 4.64 |
| 1994 | 7.09 |
| 1995 | 6.04 |
| 1996 | 5.93 |
| 1997 | 5.38 |
| 1998 | 4.91 |
| 1999 | 4.51 |
| 2000 | 4.00 |
| 2001 | 4.59 |
| 2002 | 3.96 |
| 2003 | 3.61 |
| 2004 | 3.94 |
| 2005 | 4.47 |
| 2006 | 5.35 |
| 2007 | 5.61 |
| 2008 | 4.84 |
| 2009 | 4.50 |
| 2010 | 4.21 |
| 2011 | 4.75 |
| 2012 | 4.42 |
| 2013 | 5.08 |
| 2014 | 5.47 |
| 2015 | 5.64 |
| 2016 | 4.86 |
| 2017 | 5.23 |
| 2018 | 5.69 |
| 2019 | 4.87 |
| 2020 | 5.06 |
| 2021 | 5.35 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
